cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't offlined before its children

There are three subsystem callbacks in css shutdown path -
css_offline(), css_released() and css_free().  Except for
css_released(), cgroup core didn't guarantee the order of invocation.
css_offline() or css_free() could be called on a parent css before its
children.  This behavior is unexpected and led to bugs in cpu and
memory controller.

This patch updates offline path so that a parent css is never offlined
before its children.  Each css keeps online_cnt which reaches zero iff
itself and all its children are offline and offline_css() is invoked
only after online_cnt reaches zero.

This fixes the memory controller bug and allows the fix for cpu
controller.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Brian Christiansen <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAKB58ikDkzc8REt31WBkD99+hxNzjK4+FBmhkgS+NVrC9vjMSg@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]

Orabug: 27045648

(backport upstream commit aa226ff)

Conflict:
	include/linux/cgroup-defs.h

Fix a kABI breakage

Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dhaval Giani <[email protected]>

Author: htejun

include/linux/cgroup.h

@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state {
 	/* percpu_ref killing and RCU release */
 	struct rcu_head rcu_head;
 	struct work_struct destroy_work;
+
+	/*
+	 * Incremented by online self and children.  Used to guarantee that
+	 * parents are not offlined before their children.
+	 */
+	UEK_KABI_EXTEND(atomic_t online_cnt)
 };
 
 /* bits in struct cgroup_subsys_state flags field */

kernel/cgroup.c

@@ -4482,6 +4482,7 @@ static void init_and_link_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&css->sibling);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&css->children);
 	css->serial_nr = css_serial_nr_next++;
+	atomic_set(&css->online_cnt, 0);
 
 	if (cgroup_parent(cgrp)) {
 		css->parent = cgroup_css(cgroup_parent(cgrp), ss);
@@ -4504,6 +4505,10 @@ static int online_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	if (!ret) {
 		css->flags |= CSS_ONLINE;
 		rcu_assign_pointer(css->cgroup->subsys[ss->id], css);
+
+		atomic_inc(&css->online_cnt);
+		if (css->parent)
+			atomic_inc(&css->parent->online_cnt);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -4738,10 +4743,15 @@ static void css_killed_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 		container_of(work, struct cgroup_subsys_state, destroy_work);
 
 	mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
-	offline_css(css);
-	mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 
-	css_put(css);
+	do {
+		offline_css(css);
+		css_put(css);
+		/* @css can't go away while we're holding cgroup_mutex */
+		css = css->parent;
+	} while (css && atomic_dec_and_test(&css->online_cnt));
+
+	mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 }
 
 /* css kill confirmation processing requires process context, bounce */
@@ -4750,8 +4760,10 @@ static void css_killed_ref_fn(struct percpu_ref *ref)
 	struct cgroup_subsys_state *css =
 		container_of(ref, struct cgroup_subsys_state, refcnt);
 
-	INIT_WORK(&css->destroy_work, css_killed_work_fn);
-	queue_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_work);
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&css->online_cnt)) {
+		INIT_WORK(&css->destroy_work, css_killed_work_fn);
+		queue_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_work);
+	}
 }
 
 /**